The Prize of All Oceans: The Triumph and Tragedy of Anson’s Voyage Round the World by Glyn Williams

The Island at the Centre of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan & the Forgotten Colony that Sahped America by Russell Shorto

D-Day: The Battle For Normandy by Antony Beevor

Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon by Buzz Aldrin

Xanadu: Marco Polo and Europe’s Discovery of the East by John Man

Britain’s Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy by Alison Weir

The Penguin Book of New Zealanders at War edited by Gavin McLean and Ian McGibbon

Old South: Life and Times in the Nineteeth-Century Mainland by Matthew Wright

The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas by Anne Salmond

A. A. Gill: Previous Convictions: Assignments From Here and There

Lawrence of Arabia: The Selected Letters edited by Malcolm Brown

Richard Cook’s Jazz Encyclopedia